Ship or tunnel ? How much to budget for ?

cheers.

 

Had mine delivered to my door in the South East for about £420 on a transporter IIRC. Sorry that was no help at all having just read your question again.

Before i had it delivered I looked into driving it back across but didn't like the idea of only having 3rd party insurance on the trip back through Fance and Beligium. By the time you add travelling costs it seemed more sensible to use a transport company.

Cheers
Nathan..

 

I got mine back via the tunnel - it was about £15 more, but was on and off within 40 mins - can't complain

 

Garage took me and car to ferry, The trip out on foot and the return with my car , total cost £85.

 

Try a company called Burbank Automotive, they do this sort of thing at v. good value.

www.burbankholdings.com

 

Slightly off topic, but it may help. My car came from Holland, but the same route could be used.

As I live a long way from the Ferry, I chose to fly to Amsterdam (£21 - thanks Stelios), train to the town (£11 - NS put the UK trains to shame), and dealer picked me up from there. Came back via the Ferry.

Duncan

 

Drove to Belgium, took very little time (used Chunnel)
Drove back.
Might be cheaper to swim across and push the car back, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Annoying thing was that a day return on the chunnel is very cheap, but the one way trip for the second car cost much more. Mad.

Got transit plates with a month's insurance which was handy because it was August, so I waited for that to expire so I could register the car as a '51' rather than a 'Y'.

 

hoverspeed (ostend/dover) do a special package for importers,
and you can pay a bit extra for priority service (last on/first off, and more space)
alan

 

The best option by far is to use a company called CCS. I used them 2 months ago. No need for insurance, or trade plates. Delivered into a compound in london 5 days after the car arrived in Belgium. Only cost me £280 (inc vat) all in. (they wanted another £40 to my door, but I live quite close to London)

Car was 100% intact, with only 3 miles on the clock.

see http://www.car-import-guide.com/features/transport_august_01.htm

 

go for the tunnle

On the ferry you get people with doors, bags, cases of beer trying to squeeze through very tight gaps